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Air Force One

Air Force One

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: After Face Off and The Rock the third best action film!!!!
Review: Harrison stands for good entertainment.It offers great action through the whole film. It is quite realistic but Mr. President is a bit too perfect (really doesn't matter).A great action fan really MUST watch this film!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A great action packed thriller.
Review: An action packed thriller with excellent special effects. The movie starts off fast and the action does not lull or stop. I especially liked the performances by Glenn Close, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Action-packed
Review: Action-packed thriller that deserves every star I've given it. Harrison Ford turns the non-believable role of a punching, shooting president to an exciting, lovable character that makes your dad jealous!5 stars and a little bit more!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fast Action -- but plenty of absurdities!
Review: I really want to like AF One but, the screenplay is horrible, the acting is wooden -- especially on the ground with the Vice President Glenn Close going at with an Alexander Haig wanna-be (I'm in control here!)

Wolfgang Petersen is a great action director-- the action screnes and the flying sequences rate 4 stars. Production values are first rate.

The DVD itself is nicely packaged and the 5-1 Dolby Digital Transfer and the Video sharpness rate 5 stars. Crank up the volume! But crank it down for the silly melodramatic dialog.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WONDERFUL!!!!!
Review: Hey, just when you though Harrison Ford wasnt going to make into any good movies, he becomes Prez! The Special effects are exhilarating, the action suspenseful, and the amount of blood is still kept at a minimum! Although, believe me, this could NEVER happen with the proceedures they have today!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cool!
Review: This movie is good.The special affects are awsome. Good tale that is heart pounding at moments.As I said before Cool.This team of actors is great. Harrison Ford is definately better in this one than 6 days 7 nights. This is a movie that you can't get bored with. This movie is better than Titanic and not as long.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Sound effects
Review: The best part of this movie is the sound effects.Those of you who have a good subwoofer and Dolby Digital will really enjoy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Exceeded Expectations
Review: Air Force One is the very first DVD that I viewed after setting up the viewing software on my PC. I have to admit that I'm a Harrison Ford fan, and I'm not picky about looking for "subtext" or a deep message within a film. This is an action film, and it delivers, with the usual fine performance from Harrison Ford, a reasonable performance from Glenn Close, and a Gary Oldman-esque performance from Gary Oldman (those who've seen The Fifth Element will know what I mean).

As a DVD demo, Air Force One couldn't be better. In widescreen mode, the video is rich in detail--especially the night scenes, and my eyes kept panning back and forth to try to drink it all in. The effects are what you would expect, and are rendered flawlessly on my Pentium II-350 w/8MB ATI Rage Pro video card. The MPEG decoding was in software, but the ATI board provides motion correction; even the stills seen when I clicked "pause" didn't suffer from hardware motion-blur or interlacing.

An unexpected bonus: all of the firearms-handling was by-the-book: finger OFF the trigger when not actually shooting, good muzzle discipline, etc. No child is going to learn bad habits from *this* movie (certainly no young child should be watching it anyway due to the graphic violent content), and it's very refreshing to see, after the usual spate of know-nothing miseducation-through-idiocy that comes out of Hollywood.

The Director's Commentary version of the film is a nice feature. Unfortunately, I had to have the disc back to the rental store (as it was, it was a day late), so I didn't have time to watch it very far. The theater trailer is also on the disc, as are multilingual subtitles and multiple choices for audio. The sound quality is very good, and pointed up the need for me to get better speakers for this setup (or spring for a DVD player, appropriate--yet affordable--widescreen TV, and better speakers for the living room).

At my earliest possible convenience, I'll be buying this DVD.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: not even good to laugh at
Review: There aren't very many movies I outright loathe. There were so many times during this movie that my jaw just dropped at the stupidity of it that I wonder whether I might have missed the point - is this some Strangelovesque ironic masterpiece, and am I the dumb literal sucker? But of course that's not true (the first part, at least).

The typical argument in defense of a film like this is, "Of course it's stupid. It's an action movie." Yes: even the good action movies tend to be stupid. This one, though, is stupid but has nothing to recommend it. The patriotism is simplistic, insipid, and insulting. The plot is trash, the characters trash, the action trash. The movie doesn't even make sense within its own reality - suspension of disbelief fails you.

What an awful, awful film. This is the kind of movie that makes me look suspiciously at anyone who thought it was good. I wish there were a no-star option.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Two thumbs up--way up in the air, that is
Review: Combining the sure-handed directing of Wolfgang Petersen and the superb acting of always-in-top-form Harrison Ford, "Air Force One" is an action/thriller masterpiece. All the pieces of this movie fit together like (pardon the cliche) a big jigsaw puzzle. A great supporting cast; an inginuis script by Andrew W. Marlowe; edge-of-your-seat pacing; great cinematography; a patriotic, four-star soundtrack by skilled composer Jerry Goldsmith ("Rudy," "U.S. Marshals")--all contribute to make "Air Force One" a smashing hit. Nominated for two Oscars (though it lost to the public-swayed votes for "Titanic"), this is the most enjyable movie I have ever seen in the theaters. Kudos to Harrison Ford, who shines as the American President we all wish for, standing up for what he believes in. END


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